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Union protests firing at UPS

Published: May 12, 2011 9:22 AM
By CARRIE MASON-DRAFFEN  carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.com

UPS workers protest the firing of two shop

Photo credit: Jim Staubitser | UPS workers protest the firing of two shop stewards in Farmingdale on Wednesday. (May 11, 2011)

Unionized workers rallied outside a United Parcel Service depot in Farmingdale on Wednesday to protest the firing of two shop stewards in a work rule dispute with the company.

About 100 workers marched from about  7:45  to 8:30 a.m., said Tim Sylvester, president of Long Island City-based Local 804 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents the workers.

Sylvester...

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